This month has seen yet another series of attacks on internet freedom.
A strong and independent legal community is the most significant obstacle to the arbitrariness of authoritarian rule.
Authoritarian states are using all-too familiar constitutional mechanisms to consolidate power.
Framing Azerbaijan’s online campaign to harass journalists and activists as a “technical” problem only distracts from the politics behind it.
The authoritarian regime of Azerbaijan remains a member of many international bodies, but this is often not a sufficient point of leverage. The country’s public prosecutors are a case in point.
An apparent clash between Azerbaijani organised crime groups in southern France raises questions around EU immigration fraud and security procedures.
Azerbaijan's political migrants are behind a new public campaign to draw attention to authoritarian rule at home. Judging by the reaction, it has the regime rattled.
A wave of brutal crackdowns on LGBT communities in the post-Soviet space has exposed civil society’s shortcomings — and destroyed lives.
2018 is an election year in Azerbaijan. The authorities may have the streets on lockdown, but the fight against dissent in cyberspace is just beginning.
Baku-based lawyer Samed Rahimli discusses new changes in Azerbaijan that are set to make life (even more) difficult for the country’s independent lawyers.
A new report exposes the network of lobbying and hypocrisy that risks locking Europe into decades of unnecessary fossil fuel expansion.
In late September Azerbaijan’s police rounded up and detained dozens of LGBT people. What explains this sudden crackdown?